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GUEST: Marjorie Cohn, author of the new book “Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law.” She is also a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case involving the rights of detainees being held …

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GUESTS: Klee Benally, volunteer with The Save the Peaks Coalition, Rudy Preston, a litigant with the Flagstaff Activist Network

A coalition of indigenous leaders and environmental groups has caravaned to Southern California ahead of a court hearing on Arizona’s San Francisco Peaks. In a follow up to a story we covered on Uprising, the legal battle over …

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GUEST: Buddy Collette, legendary jazz musician and civil rights activist, Yusef Omowale, Director of the Southern California Library

This Saturday, legendary jazz musician and civil rights activist Buddy Collette will appear, along with others at the Southern California Library for an all-day event called “I Have a Story to Tell.” Born in Watts, in …

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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about the Sub-Prime Housing Bubble. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”

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Most KPFK listeners know well the reality and danger of the warming of the planet, and that this global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning …

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GUEST: Muhammed Sahimi, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of
Southern California

In what appears to be a blow to the Bush Administration’s plans for war and sanctions on Iran, a US intelligence report has asserted that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago. The National Intelligence Estimate represents the consensus of all 16 …

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GUEST: Laura Carlsen, Director of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy. She is based in Mexico City

The US Senate overwhelmingly approved a bilateral trade agreement yesterday between the United States and Peru. As the first trade deal between an Andean nation and the United States, the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement will …

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GUEST: Judith Redmond, Board President of Community Alliance with Family Farmers and co-owner of Full Belly Farms

A recent amendment by California Senator Diane Feinstein to the 2007 Farm Bill on leafy greens, had family farmers up in arms. Feinstein has proposed regulating all leafy green vegetable production in the United States, a move …

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… about the California Gold Rush

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